Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
Contributor(s)
Atkinson, David (editor)
Roud, Steve (editor)
Collection
ScholarLedLanguage
EnglishAbstract
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature.
The breadth and depth of the contributions give a much fuller and more nuanced picture of what was being widely published and read during this period than has previously been available. It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century popular culture and literature, print history and the book trade, ballad and folk studies, children’s literature, and social history.
Keywords
Eighteenth-century trade;Street literature;Ballads;Chapbooks;Popular prints;Printers;Book tradeDOI
10.11647/OBP.0347ISBN
9781805110392, 9781805110408, 9781805110422, 9781805110446, 9781805110453, 9781805110415Publisher
Open Book PublishersPublisher website
https://www.openbookpublishers.com/Publication date and place
Cambridge, 2023Classification
Prints & printmaking
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
Popular culture
Material culture
Publishing industry & book trade
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
United Kingdom, Great Britain